Former San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew will serve about a month of his original one-year sentence for perjury in County Jail, and the rest in home detention on an ankle monitor, a San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled Friday.

The decision came after Jew's attorneys argued that he should be given timed-served credit for the almost five years he spent in prison camps on separate federal extortion charges.

Judge Kay Tsenin denied his attorneys' plea that he spend his entire sentence in home detention, ruling that Jew should spend 60 days of his sentence in County Jail - he can be out in 30 days for good behavior - and that he must do 2,440 hours of community service while wearing the ankle monitor.

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"Mr. Jew needs to repay the community, and that's not going to happen behind bars," she said.

Lying about residence

Assistant District Attorney Evan Ackiron strongly objected to the defense's request, stating that the one-year sentence came as part of a plea agreement.

Jew admitted in 2008 to lying about living in the Sunset District when he ran to represent that neighborhood. He was actually living in Burlingame with his family.

"This deal was a gift," Ackiron said. "He was facing 10 years in prison."

The original deal was that his state sentence would run consecutively with his federal sentences. Jew had pleaded guilty in 2008 to extorting $84,000 from the owners of a chain of tapioca drink stores in his district. He was released this year after 4 1/2 years in prison camps in Arizona and California, plus six months in a Los Angeles jail.

His attorney, Stuart Hanlon, argued that home detention for Jew would be similar to alternative sentences given to others convicted of serious crimes.

"George Gascón, all he talks about on his website is the benefits of alternative sentencing," Hanlon said of the district attorney. "Now we have the Ed Jew exception."

Outside of court, he called this exception "bull-."

D.A. disappointed

Gascón disagreed with that assessment, calling the court's decision "disappointing."

"This is not some 20-year-old selling drugs for subsistence on the corner," he said. "This was a member of the elected Board of Supervisors of the county of San Francisco who made a mockery of the entire system."